Live Coverage of Apple's October 2013 iPad and Mac Event [Event Ended]

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NachoGrande said:

Made in the USA.


by 99.9% robots

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Haha, hey, 2,000 jobs.
I hope quality will be better than China though. Those Chinese workers are much happier working for 5 cents an hour than Americans on minimum wage.

TOYSTER17 said:

Everyone expected a retina mini.

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The presence of an A7 chip in the device is a pleasant surprise, though.

Impressive that they kept 10 hrs of battery too.

surjavarman said:

Anyone able to download mavericks yet? I can't find it in the app store yet everyone is saying its ready for download

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Nothing yet for me. (UK)

gotluck said:

The drivers still seem to be a bit less 'optimized' for gaming, especially game specific bugs. At least such is the case with the workstation card on my laptop. I'm sure the gap has narrowed though and they are still great cards for all purposes. I'm speaking of nvidia. I've been away from ati for a few years.

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They obviously won't get the game specific driver updates the Geforces/Radeons get, but I think all the GPUs across the line are kept together for the big point releases.

I think being the key phrase here. I've never used, nor ever seen anyone use a pro GPU for gaming before, so it's all rough guesswork on my part.

Risco said:

So are we gonna get charged for iPhoto, Garageband, iMovie updates if we already own them?

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Yes. It will be free on new devices only. That is what it sounds like to me.

Only Apple could try and sell early 2011 gear (the iPad2) at late 2013 prices.....

There is not enough facepalm in the world for that.

RVijay007 said:

Please, investors will love this as they know people will continue to buy apple products. The only reason the stock is down is because it was so inflated in pre-market.

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IDK I think people are starting to figure out they can get just as much for quite a bit less price wise. Apple had a great advantage on tablets being the first to the market but things are changing I bet the kindle kills this year.(now down 10 points).

I'd like to start a drinking game. Every time they say 'amazing' you drink a sip of beer. In 1.5 hours, you'll be face down..

MultiMediaWill said:

So whats new besides the smaller size of the iPad Air?

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Nothing. The Tim Cook era is more about incrementalism than before. This was the first time I've watch an Apple event where I wasn't moved to buy anything. I've seen this before with Treo, they are losing their mojo.

I wonder when Mavericks will hit the App Store today? Probably preparing their servers for the inevitable onslaught. Hahaha! They are NOT prepared.

and.... stock goes down... never understood the market.

The End

And now to read about...

- how bad the new Apple products are
- why Apple is going out of business
- how Apple sucks without Steve Jobs
- Android already does that
- monochromatic dress shirts with untucked tails

ghostwriter said:

Apple is becoming boring, and that's not a good thing. While the MacPro shows the most innovation, everything else is just more of the same with the usual expected upgrades. Apparently investors arent happy either with the stock dropping -$9.48 at the close of the keynote.

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So? It is not like that stock is going to stay down forever.

People will buy the products and buy them in bunches because they work well and they do what the buyers purchase them to do. Developers make money selling apps.

the only thing worth my time in this keynote: osx mavericks being free

other than that LOL APPLE

NachoGrande said:

I'd like to start a drinking game. Every time they say 'amazing' you drink a sip of beer. In 1.5 hours, you'll be face down..

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Add a shot for each "super" and you wont make it through the keynote

A good showing from Apple today, best I can remember in a long long while.

Waiting for Mavericks to pop up in the App store now. Lol I bet the makers of that icon-making app that appears when you search for Mavericks are loving this!

No point in me going for the new mini now, for 100.00 difference it's better to save for the full size.

TouchMint.com said:

IDK I think people are starting to figure out they can get just as much for quite a bit less price wise. Apple had a great advantage on tablets being the first to the market but things are changing I bet the kindle kills this year.(now down 10 points).

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If that were true, Apple would never be able to sell macs. People pay the premium for a reason. Macs really aren't "more" than their PC counterparts in terms of hardware. You pay the price for the software and services. Same with iPad/iPhone.

Risco said:

So are we gonna get charged for iPhoto, Garageband, iMovie updates if we already own them?

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They are now free for everyone all the time on every device (there will be iap now tho).

The iPad Air looks good, but the mini will be the better seller I think.

Why are there no specs on the weight or size of the new Retina mini?

You know, I'm thinking about going with the Mini this generation. It's got the same specs and resolution as the bigger iPad, so I'm not really losing anything cept maybe a little bit of battery life.

Also, why the hell is the iPad 2 still around? And at the same price as the retina Mini? That's just dumb.

I'm 99% sure that Apple is gonna release new iPads within the next 6 months to include Touch ID. That would give the current models a lifespan comparable to the 3rd generation iPad.

rgarjr said:

Guess no new iPods refreshes.

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I thought an A6/Camera bump on the iPod Touch, but only because I thought we'd see way less A5 (devices) ... but since they're keeping the 4S, cMini, iPad2, Apple TV all with A5s, it's probably a great "entry level" SOC for them.

Snookerman said:

Bryan Cranston <3

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Yeah, I miss Mr. White ...